in reply to Re: XPs and real experience
in thread XPs and real experience

I know that it's up to the monk to tell what he/she wants to tell. And from there should be the "Experience" evaluation. Not points because someone is hanging here(assuming that it is the reason for 200 and more points and 1 posting, but I might be wrong and the reason is another).
Or probably I'm missing the real meaning of these points...
I was just curious about this evaluation that is called "Experience", while I guess is not, at least not completely.
Thanks for your reply
roberto

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Re: Re: Re: XPs and real experience
by JungleBoy (Scribe) on Nov 21, 2001 at 00:04 UTC
    Personally, I view XP as a measure of a person's involvement with the PM community, not necessarily a measure of their Perl knowledge.

    Most of my XP came from voting. Why don't I post more? Because I'm still learning Perl, so either I don't know the answer, or someone else has already provided one, and I have nothing to add (The posts where people re-iterate what someone else has already said really annoy me). So I vote instead, and make my small contribution to the PM community, and get my small reward in the form of an occasional XP point.

    I would also imagine that if you take a look at how long that person has been a Perl Monks user, you'd probably find that they've been here a while. If someone's willing to 'hang around' that long, I think they should be given some XP. Without these people, PM wouldn't be such a strong site.